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Elza Kan could be one of my Korean aunts, except she speaks Russian. Her restaurant in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach neighborhood serves traditional Korean food with an Uzbek twist.

The US agreed to resettle refugees stuck in an Australian-run offshore detention facility. But with the camp slated to be shut down in late October, not a single refugee has been approved.

Most of the ads run by the accounts didn't directly reference the US presidential election, voting or particular candidates but instead appeared focused on "amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum," according to Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos.

Donald Trump Jr. was on Capitol Hill Thursday for a closed-door meeting with Senate investigators.

The Daily Beast is reporting that rich Russians are coming to the United States to give birth to get US citizenship for their babies. Many are being steered to Donald Trump-brand properties.

With Florida still preparing for landfall, US citizens are already reeling from the punch of Hurricane Irma.

Aparna Nancherla shares a high school secret she’s kept — until now.

Kurt Andersen always remembered being inspired by his 11th grade English teacher, Gary Sedlacek. So he decided to give him a call.

Novelist Nicholson Baker braves being a substitute teacher.

The annual Dance Your PhD contest challenges doctoral candidates to take their research from the lab bench to the barre.

A photo of the crime scene shows a bloodstained Aristotle Garcia lying in the street. He has a .38 caliber pistol in his right hand, a wad of cash in the other. Her brother wasn't right-handed, though, which means the gun is in the wrong hand.

Myanmar’s army looks determined to rid the nation of the Rohingya ethnic minority. More than 100,000 Rohingya people have fled in the last two weeks alone.

Back-to-back mega-storms pounding the US and Caribbean countries have left a lot of people wondering if this is climate change at work. The answer is yes, and no. But it's the wrong question.

Perhaps nowhere would the effects of rescinding DACA be felt more than in the state of California, where more than one out of four people are DACA recipients.

For more than 40 years, North Koreans have seen the same face delivering the biggest news on TV. The anchor, Ri Chun Hee, is known for her melodramatic air, and her bright traditional dress. That's earned her the nickname, "The Pink Lady." But who is she?

She was particularly opposed to the right-wing Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Haitians and Cubans are preparing for the storms in starkly different ways.

In a rare interview, a defector of an all-female division of the North Korean army describes life then and now.

Salman Rushdie stretched the bounds of realism and fantasy in “The Satanic Verses,” but in his latest novel, he’s doing the opposite.

“I think the Duterte government was so focused on the war on drugs it erratically forgot an equally critical issue, like the looming radicalism that had been felt this past several months," said Julkipli Wadi, lecturer at the University of Philippines Institute of Islamic Studies.

Under what circumstances can the media responsibly portray teen suicide?

If synthetic fibers are in tap water, they’re also likely in foods prepared with water, such as bread, pasta, soup and baby formula, researchers say.

In many parts of rural India a strong taboo exists against women saying the names of their husbands. A feminist group is seeking to change that.

Tech industry leaders, from Apple to Facebook to Google, are calling on Congress to restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

To get through a hard day's labor, refugee children sing work songs, they told The World’s Richard Hall.

Julio Ramos just started medical school, but unless Congress passes laws to protect undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children, it’s unclear if he can finish his training. Or pay back the student loans he’s already taken out.

Dr. J. Marion Sims is often hailed as the father of modern gynecology. But he also has a troubled history of experimenting on slaves and activists are calling for a statue of him in New York City to be removed.

President Donald Trump has been able to count on the support of many evangelical Christians. But many evangelical leaders are speaking out in favor of the DACA program that Trump has decided to cancel.

Both the US and China sent aid to the Philippines to quell its Islamist insurgency. Both countries want to gain influence over the Philippine military. If China succeeds, it will hinder the US’ ability to project power in the Asia Pacific.

“The goal is to try to get these drugs, if they show promise, to patients as quickly as possible, but then also make sure that they're followed up with confirmatory studies done in a timely fashion.”

"The Hill" takes its name and inspiration from Ammunition Hill, the site of a brutal battle during the Six-Day War in 1967.

More countries than you might expect.

An agreement between neighbors has kept a territorial dispute between the US and Canada at bay for nearly 30 years. But as shipping traffic increases, some worry it's leaving the arctic open to catastrophe.

President Donald Trump is expected to make an announcement Tuesday on the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Eliminating the program would not only have devastating psychological effects on current DACA recipients and their families, but the potential to negatively affect the US economy, according to various studies.

In the Chinese city of Yanji on Monday, social media showed home videos of shaking chandeliers. The city sits on the border with North Korea, close enough to the nuclear test site for the tremors to be clearly felt (and seen). North Korea does not have many friends in the international community. But in the past China has been a powerful backer.

The UN Security Council on Monday opened an emergency meeting to agree to a response to North Korea's sixth and most powerful nuclear test as calls mounted for a new raft of tough sanctions to be imposed on Pyongyang.

The California Department of Water Resources insists the dam is stable. But a lush, damp area on the dam’s face has nearby communities — and some engineers — concerned.

What do icy cherry popsicles, sweet grape sodas and sticky banana taffy have in common?

In his new book, Jonathan Losos tackles some of the biggest questions in evolution.

What’s on the horizon in biometric security, and how can we make the technology more secure?

Unlike Earth, the moon doesn’t have a magnetic field — but it did billions of years ago. What happened?

An English teacher in Spain might be responsible for convincing the Beatles to include lyrics in the liner notes on their albums.

The Cherokee Freedmen have long been fighting for citizenship in the Cherokee Nation.

After being pressured for years to submit to an arranged marriage, Pakistani graphic designer Nashra Balagamwala decided to turn her experiences into a board game.

A group founded by immigrants in wheelchairs battles Hurricane Harvey.

Carter Burwell teaches Kurt Andersen how to talk like a film composer.

Jenny Slate’s character Marcel the Shell is half an inch long. But she’s getting very big these days, starring in movies and TV and writing children’s books.

Why did one casting director say the team behind “Moonlight” deserves a Purple Heart for their work? We talk to the film's casting director Yesi Ramirez to find out.

One brave critic not only defends, but praises, “The Godfather: Part III”.

This week, the London Metropolitan Police announced they were reviving the investigation into the assassination of Naji al-Ali. Here’s how his legacy has endured.